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Also know as the woman with tools verses the inanimate object.
Googling 'stripped screws' led me to some interesting ideas - most of which I had tried already. One I hadn't tried was using Super Glue to attach the screwdriver to the screw, then leftie loosie. I don't care much for Super Glue, I never found it that good.
The other idea was using a Dremel with a cutting wheel and turning the stripped Torx screw into a flathead screw.
I have a Dremel with cutting wheels. However, since the screws are recessed I'd have to cut into the plastic to get at them.
Do I care if I put grooves in the power brick? Nope.
A few minutes with the Dremel and the brick was opened. Needless to say, the inside was filthy.
More Clorox wipes and some Q tips and alcohol I got it cleaned out. The fan was full of fuzz! I picked it out, wiped it out, Q tipped it clean *then* used the canned air. I squeezed the brick back together - I'm not going to try to screw it back together at the moment - that's what tape is for!
Now, with a clean power supply with a working fan I felt safe to plug it in, I got out the controller (Game Spot was a mad house the day after Christmas) and did some digging. There were 11 accounts on this puppy! I played a few rounds of Bejewelled that was on the hard drive - it's a freebie/demo game - but I didn't connect it to the Internet again.
Oh, did I mention that with Googling and a paper clip I was able to eject the disk from the DVD drive? I now have a copy of Diablo III.
I closed DVD drive and it won't open again. It acted pretty sluggish when it did eject so it might just need a good cleaning.
-to be continued
-m
Googling 'stripped screws' led me to some interesting ideas - most of which I had tried already. One I hadn't tried was using Super Glue to attach the screwdriver to the screw, then leftie loosie. I don't care much for Super Glue, I never found it that good.
The other idea was using a Dremel with a cutting wheel and turning the stripped Torx screw into a flathead screw.
I have a Dremel with cutting wheels. However, since the screws are recessed I'd have to cut into the plastic to get at them.
Do I care if I put grooves in the power brick? Nope.
A few minutes with the Dremel and the brick was opened. Needless to say, the inside was filthy.
More Clorox wipes and some Q tips and alcohol I got it cleaned out. The fan was full of fuzz! I picked it out, wiped it out, Q tipped it clean *then* used the canned air. I squeezed the brick back together - I'm not going to try to screw it back together at the moment - that's what tape is for!
Now, with a clean power supply with a working fan I felt safe to plug it in, I got out the controller (Game Spot was a mad house the day after Christmas) and did some digging. There were 11 accounts on this puppy! I played a few rounds of Bejewelled that was on the hard drive - it's a freebie/demo game - but I didn't connect it to the Internet again.
Oh, did I mention that with Googling and a paper clip I was able to eject the disk from the DVD drive? I now have a copy of Diablo III.
I closed DVD drive and it won't open again. It acted pretty sluggish when it did eject so it might just need a good cleaning.
-to be continued
-m
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